I remember sitting in a drug education workshop in school learning about the effects drugs have on the body. I distinctly remember the moment they described the dangers of mixing hard drugs like ecstacy and alcohol. I laughed it off and thought to myself "ecstacy and alcohol seems like great fun!". Oh boy did my friend find out the hard way just how bad it can get!
It was my 19th birthday so a few friends and I decided to go for a few drinks. After a few hours drinking beer moods were high; but we weren't - so my friend, Roy tried to get us some weed but unfortunately his dealer only had ecstacy. Roy and I were fitness freaks so up until this point we had never tried anything other than a little weed. Feeling brave we both decided to make the leap. We got a pill each, took them and went straight to a club.
About an hour passed and both of us are starting to feel the effects of it. However we were on two different levels; I was in a state of complete uphoria, Roy was getting very, very anxious. In my uphoric state I got distracted by what I seemed to be a pretty lady. Turned out she had cerebral palsy which goes to show how damn f****d up I was. I left the pretty lady to look for Roy. I found him at the bar. He was seriously tripping balls at this stage. His anxiety got the better of him and started freaking out looking for water.
He began to scream at the barman "GIVE ME WATER!" The barman stared at him with a concerned look on his face as Roy was noticably out of his mind on ecstacy. Roy reached over the bar, grabbed the barman and shook him by the shoulders. Again he screamed "BRING ME WATER!" Finally the barman obliged and gave him the water. He took a quick sip, poured the rest over his head and sprinted out of the club. I tried to catch him but he was nowhere to be seen.
Roy wandered around the city on his own for a little while until he made the stupidest move of his life so far - he decided to phone his father at the peak of his ecstacy trip. He opened the phonecall with "Dad I'm out of my f***ing mind on ecstacy, you should try it, it's dacent!" (Dacent is an Irish version of "awesome"). His father freaked out and made Roy get a taxi home. He spent the rest of the night being given out to by his parents while encouraging them to take ecstacy as it was "dacent" The next day his parents kicked him out of home.
Don't do drugs kids, and if you do - don't ring your parents! 😆